Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by dnissley » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 2:35 PM UTC

Fischgericht wrote: post #147

Fischgericht wrote: post #118

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Doesn't work for me. I feel much safer tracking the disintegration of civilization in real-time, making predictions based on that information, and adapt the timing of my escape plans accordingly. So I must newspapers from all around the world every morning, even if it's painful. I have to admit though: Yesterday I cheated. On new years morning I skipped all world news to beat 2025 to it, delaying the inevitable by a…

Genuinely interested what the downvoters find offensive or unreasonable about me having a coping strategy that works for preventing me to kill myself...? After all, I am not criticizing those who have different coping strategies to protect their mental health, including to keep world news at distance. That just does not work for ME. Care to enlighten me?

I found the off hand implication that civilization is disintegrating to be sophomoric.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by scruple » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 4:49 PM UTC

zeeed wrote: post #157

califool wrote: post #154

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I am going on a year from watching. feels good.

Serious question: so to all posters above me in this thread, do you do HN regularly as a social but just avoid other sites?

Basically, yeah. I find that the aggregation here is a dozen cuts above what I can find elsewhere and the "news" is tends to be things that are at least tech adjacent and when they're not they're genuinely "newsworthy."

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by scruple » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 4:50 PM UTC

mharig wrote: post #139

scruple wrote: post #110

Wake up ~5:30am. Get dressed, brush my teeth, and make a black breakfast tea. go for a 20 minute walk. Change into workout clothes, workout til ~6:30am (I have a full garage gym -- strength is Mon, Weds, Fri, and conditioning is Tues, Thurs, and Sat). Shower, morning face and hair routine, get dressed, get my wife and kids stirred and moving. Get downstairs, get breakfast started, pack lunches, out of the house by 7:…

Do not forget mobility.

Yep, I get mobility work in pretty much every day. Generally at night after we've eaten dinner as a family, I'll do some mobility drills and foam rolling, etc., while we're doing other activities before bedtime.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by Semaphor » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 4:58 PM UTC

37. I wake up, usually between 4 and 5 (5-7 on the weekend), and get dressed. I turn on the PC in the office, turn on the kettle in the kitchen, go to the bathroom, back to the kitchen to make coffee in the press. Back to the PC, login and read some news while enjoying the first cup. Then I pick an album to listen to (from the fresh releases if it's Friday or Saturday) and start working.

Not sure how well my routine works for others, though ;)

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by thuanao » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

I wake up without alarm between 6 and 7. For the next few hours I sit and enjoy coffee. Some days I take my kid to preschool or make him breakfast if my wife is busy.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by pixelatedindex » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 5:49 PM UTC

dnissley wrote: post #171

Fischgericht wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely interested what the downvoters find offensive or unreasonable about me having a coping strategy that works for preventing me to kill myself...? After all, I am not criticizing those who have different coping strategies to protect their mental health, including to keep world news at distance. That just does not work for ME. Care to enlighten me?

I found the off hand implication that civilization is disintegrating to be sophomoric.

Civilization might not be disintegrating, but we sure are living in “interesting times” compared to the life two or three decades ago. It definitely feels worse, so I can empathize. I certainly struggle with home affordability, or lack thereof. Plus other things but home ownership is a big one.

Maybe you’re better off financially and emotionally, so you find it sophomoric - like a parent looking at a kid in high school struggling with their emotions.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by pixelatedindex » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 5:51 PM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #174

37. I wake up, usually between 4 and 5 (5-7 on the weekend), and get dressed. I turn on the PC in the office, turn on the kettle in the kitchen, go to the bathroom, back to the kitchen to make coffee in the press. Back to the PC, login and read some news while enjoying the first cup. Then I pick an album to listen to (from the fresh releases if it's Friday or Saturday) and start working. Not sure how well my routine…

Goddamn that’s early lol

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by HerrBertling » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 6:45 PM UTC

41. Get up at 6:15-6:30. Take 15-20 minutes to wake up, brush teeth, toilet, drink some water. Put on workout clothes, do either 45 minute run outside (no matter the weather) or 20 minute kettlebell workout. Meditate for 10 minutes if time permits. Take a cold shower. Wake up wife + daughter if they aren’t awake yet. Prepare daughter for kindergarten, eat something in between. Start work after getting her to the kindergarten.

I just know I‘ll have a better day if I can slot in workout, meditation and cold shower.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by Fischgericht » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 7:06 PM UTC

dnissley wrote: post #171

Fischgericht wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Genuinely interested what the downvoters find offensive or unreasonable about me having a coping strategy that works for preventing me to kill myself...? After all, I am not criticizing those who have different coping strategies to protect their mental health, including to keep world news at distance. That just does not work for ME. Care to enlighten me?

I found the off hand implication that civilization is disintegrating to be sophomoric.

Understood, thank you.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Morning Routine?

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Post by dnissley » Fri, Jan 03, 2025, 8:48 PM UTC

pixelatedindex wrote: post #176

dnissley wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found the off hand implication that civilization is disintegrating to be sophomoric.

Civilization might not be disintegrating, but we sure are living in “interesting times” compared to the life two or three decades ago. It definitely feels worse, so I can empathize. I certainly struggle with home affordability, or lack thereof. Plus other things but home ownership is a big one. Maybe you’re better off financially and emotionally, so you find it sophomoric - like a parent looking at a kid in high scho…

While I do think wealth inequality is a big issue of our time, I don't think it is an issue of civilizational level disintegration -- that would look like the total amount of wealth in our society decreasing, which by all accounts doesn't seem to be happening.

While I'm far from rich, I have done well the last couple years after many years of being poor. But even when I was poor I looked around and saw lots of people who were wealthy and doing well, which I took as a general measure of how society was doing, instead of using my own situation or those in my immediate circle as a measure of that.